Session promoters Bandstand Busking have announced that they’re once again putting on a stage at Ray Davies’ Meltdown Festival at the Southbank Centre in London. The Guillemots will be headlining this year’s stage with more acts to be announced. Last…
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Villagers win Ivor Novello award for best song
Och that’s nice. The lovely Conor O’Brien from Villagers has won an Ivor Novello Award today for “Best Song Musically and Lyrically” for ‘Becoming A Jackal’, the title track of his debut album. He was up against Foals and Everything Everything…
Festival Preview: Truck
The 14th Truck Festival (22nd-24th July) will, unfortunately for FFS, be our first. We had a rough idea that something good was going on in a field in Oxford all these years, but we’ve only just been informed of the…
FFS on London Fields Radio #6
We play tracks from The Leisure Society, Fleet Foxes, Joni Mitchell and Jackson Browne, and FFS’s reviews editor Ian Parker calls in for a chat about the best new albums. There’s also two tracks from Brian’s mixtape: Imitation & Flattery,…
WIN! Two tickets to the Southbank centre’s Great Folk Jukebox this Saturday
This weekend, the Southbank centre is hosting These Lands Are Your Lands – a celebration of traditional music and dance. On Saturday 7th May, members of Bellowhead will become the Southbank Centre’s house band for The Great Folk Jukebox, performing…
Mumford & Sons to play gig in aid of AFC Wimbledon
It’s been an amazing year for Mumford & Sons. Over a million copies of Sigh No More have been sold. They’ve received Grammy Award nominations and played live on US network televsion with Bob Dylan. So how do you follow…
Sarabeth Tucek to play Wood Festival
Sarabeth Tucek has been added to the line-up for the Wood Festival, joining the likes of Willy Mason, Eliza Carthy and Treetop Flyers at the Oxfordshire event next month. Also added to the bill are Zeus and Michele Stodart from…
Beth Jeans Houghton (finally) announces debut album + free download
The long wait for a Beth Jeans Houghton album is almost over. Beth has not been heard from since the 2009 EP Hot Toast Volume One (we gave up waiting for Volume Two some time ago) but today emerged to…
News: Emily & the Woods reveals new video, and EP launch
A new favourite of ours here at FFS HQ, Emily & the Woods is releasing her second EP ‘Eye to Eye’ on May 4th with a launch party at The North London Tavern, 375 Kilburn High Road. While you wait…
News: Emmy the Great announces new album, Virtue
Long-time FFS favourite Emmy the Great has announced the release of her second album. Virtue, produced by Grizzly Bear producer Gareth Jones, will be released on June 13th. Two London dates have already sold out but there’s a Salford show…